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Prav for pm!
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I rarely got repped for all the bloody googling and stuff and answering the same questions over and over..
E.g. the recent thread - 'What cranks are these?' I answered the question (Zinn) and - no reps.
That is really really not a big deal for me at all, but shows that the system was not working.
The 'top' users are mainly going to rep for lols - simply because they don't have very many questions left to ask!yeah but Prav you're tall, personable, erudite and beautiful.
People get jealous about stuff like that.
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yeah but Prav you're tall, personable, erudite and beautiful.
People get jealous about stuff like that.
Repping's gone PJ.
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I found thr rep points helpful, especially when first joining, it's a good way of seeing who knows their shit and who's advice is more likely to be helpful. Not saying that someone without and rep will be giving bad advice. I guess it comes down to experiance, I'l trust the bike related advice of someone who's been on here from the start far more than a noob.
I guess the issue is that as pointed out above, that the points are being given for anything and everything, so maybe an adjustment to the points system, or different colour points, Green for handy advice, Yellow for being a funny fucker, and Red for being a cunt. ;)
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Well, VB, you can't have it both ways: think this is important enough to create a poll and then dismiss it as 'navel gazing' when members discuss the matter.
The main problem I have with this is that, for example, Horatio claims that there is a small group of people who are ruining the forum by the way they use the rep function. Who do you mean Horatio? You obviously have people in mind so why not name them? Presumably they must be the people with the most rep points? So who do you mean? Me? Hippy? BMMF? Tynan? Platini? Object? Shinscar? RPM? Teenslain? Velocity Boy?
Maybe you are right not to name names but that doesn't make it right to advance your argument by making snide innuendos. And it also, for example, insults the people who give the rep; you think they are so stupid that they have somehow been conned into giving rep? Or giving it for the wrong reasons? This talk of different kinds of rep is patronising anyway; who is to say what it should be given for? What right has any member to denigrate others' choices in this way? And if you have different kinds of rep you would, by the same logic, not rid the forum of people posting just for rep but instead expand that in to a multi-category competition.
Getting rep, for me anyway, is not just an ego boost, another patronising and snide assertion that has been made. Certainly if I make a joke it's nice to know that someone laughed at it but there have also been times when I have got rep for being helpful or for speaking out against certain attitudes and rep lets me know that other people share my view. I have received rep from a lot of different people for all sorts of reasons and it pisses me off that somehow writing stuff that people like to read has been represented by some people as helping to ruin the forum.
Roxy you have a strong idea of what the forum is for but that view may not be shared by everyone; it is none the less just as much their forum as it is yours. I don't see the humour as window dressing; it's central to what I like about the LFGSS. Anyway there is clearly not just one forum but multiple forums and it is possible for members to use it in the way they choose. Clearly the turn out at the Bridges ride indicates that nothing that has happened recently on here has affected the forum's ability to unite and organise.
I think Scott's notion that yesterday, when the green squares disappeared, the forum miraculously recovered, in a way not seen since Lazarus decided he fancied a breath of fresh air, is risible and nothing more than evidence that people see what they want to see.
My suggestion is this: we keep the reputation function (or keep it under a new name) but it is not linked to a points system and does not produce a league table and rep given or received can only be seen on your own User CP. There are no green squares awarded. That way there is nothing to compete for (accepting for the sake of argument that such competing has occured) but those of us who find it worthwhile can still use it. Admittedly you could just rely on PMs but that is a more time consuming method. If people want to write "repped for that" I think it's up to them and it is up to others to take it up with them personally if they don't like it. There has been too much anonymous mud slinging in this debate and not enough respect for others' intelligence and judgement.
We could also give more 'ownership' of threads to OPs so that if they state that they only want useful or factual replies that should be respected and if it is not it can be reported like any other unacceptable behaviour.
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Reputation (green pips), do you find it a useful feature of the forum?
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@Velocio
I used to get negative reps when I tried to be funny, particularly when my attempts involved irony. I received positive reps when I was either accidentlaly funny or when (a rare occurrence) I posted something useful.
Freed of the fear of negative reps, I will revert to my usual sarcastic self.